Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-03

oY Inc garments tSay put upon naked
ness, by the miles tney travelled to allie
Viate every kind of suffering. They ielt
lnthe thrill OF every nerve, IN the motion
OF every muscle, in every throb OF their
heart, in every respiration OF their lungs,
the magnificent truth: "No man liveth
for himself" They went through
cold and through heat, foot-blstered,
cheek-smitten, back.scourged, tempest
lashed, to do their whole duty. That is
the way they measured lie---by the
amount of good they could do. Do you
want TO know how old Luther was: how
old Richard Baxter was; how old Philip
poddrldge was? Why, you cannot cal
cuiate the length OF their lives by any hui
man arithmetic. Add to their lives ten
thousand times ten thousand years, and
| you nave not expressed it--what they
have lived or will live. ., what stand
ard Ldat is to measure a mans life b.
There are those in this house who think
tney nave only lived thirty years. They
! Will nave lived a thnusand-they have
| ilVed a thousand. There are those who.
think they are eighty years of age. They
nave not even ents ed upon their infancv,
for one must become IA babe IN Christ TO
! begin a. all.
Now, do not know what your sdvan-
| tages or disadvantages are; | do not
know what your tact or talent is; do not
| manners or the responsiveness of them;
but l know this; there is for you. my
hearer, field TO culture, a harvest To
| reap, a tear to wipe away, a soul to save.
| III you have worldly means, consacrate
! them to Christ. If you have elouuence,
use it on the side that Paul and Wilber-
torcs used theirs. II you have learning,
put 1t all into the poor-boX OF the worlds
suffering. But II you have none Of these
!
ing--you, at any rate have a smila with
which you can encourage the dishearteu-
! ed; trown with which you may blast In
| justice; voice with which you NAV call
the wanderer back 10 God. So" you say,
"that is very sanctimonious view OF
| life" 1t is not. II is the only bright
view OF life, and II is the only bright view
| of deatn. Contrast the death ecene of a
man who has measured life by the
worldly standard, with the death scene Of
| a man who has measured life bv the Chris.
tian standard. Quinn, the actor, in bis last
| moments said: 81 hope this tragic scene
Will soon be over, and | hope to keep nv
| dignity to the last" Malherbe SAID IN
| his last moments To the con lessor: "Hold
your tOnguel your miserable style puts
me out of couceit with heaven" Lord
! Chesterfield, in his last moments, when he
ought to have been praying for his soul,
| bothered himself about the prOpretles OF
| the sick room, and sad: "Give Davboles
achair." Godfrey Kneler spent his last
| hours on earth in drawing diagram OF
his own monument. Compare the silly
and horrible departure OF such men with
the seraphc glow on the face of Edward
PaysOn. as be said in his last
moment: "The breezes OF heaven tan me-.
| float in sea OF glory" Or, with
Paul, the apostle, who said in his last
hour: ~ am now ready to be offered up,
ana the time OF my departure is at hand
have fought the good fight, | have k pt
t1e faith. Henceforth there Ia lad up for
me a crown OF righteousness which the
Lord, theRighteous Judge, will give me-"
Or compare it with the Christian desthbed
that you witnessed in your own house
hold. Oh, my friends. this world Is a false
godl 1t will consume you with the blaze
in which 1t accepts your sacrifice, while
the righteous shall be held in everlasting
O, remembrance; and when the thrones have
fallen, and the monuments have crumb bled,
aud the world mas perished, they shall
banquet with the conQuerOrs OF earth and
This is a good da afiNss~ss - xs-s@sa. a
new style Of measuresfkssf tE4sscn1
thot ? You see the ChrfsS2Ay
measuring life and the worN.
measuring it, | leave 1t 10 you % say
which is the wisest and best way. The
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and it has hurled us on. The Old year
| has gone. The new year has come. For
! what you and nave been launched upon
1t, God only knows.
Now, let me ask you all: Have you
made any preparation tor the future?
You have made preparation for time, my
dear brother; have you made any
preparation for eternltyG Do you
wonder that when thAt man on the
Hudson river, 10 Indignation. tore up the
tract which was handed to MIN, and lust
| one word landed on his coat sleeve-the
| rest OF the tract being pitched into the
river-that one word aroused bis s0ul
| IL was that one word, so long, 50 broad,
| so high, so deep. eternityl A dying wo-
man, in her last moments, said: Call il
backw They said: "What do
''call it back" Oh, it cannot be called
back! We might lose our fortunes and
! call them bacg, we might lose our health
and perhaps recover IL, we might lose our
| good name and get that back, but time
| gone is gone forever.
Some Of you during the past year made
| preparation for eternity, aud IL makes no
| difference 10 you real as to the matter
| OF safety, whether You 20 now or - some
other year-whether this year or the next
year. Il lth YOUR feet on the rock.
waves may dash around you. You can
say: "GDd Ia Our refuge and strength--a
very present help" You are on th- rock,
aud YOU may defy all eartn aud hell 10
overthrow you, l congratulate you.
give you great joy. 1t is happy New
Year TO you.
| can see no sorrow at all in the fact
tnat our years are going. You hear some
people say; II wish could 20 back again
TO OoyhOOd." | would not want TO go
back again to b yh0Dd. | am AFRAID |
might make q worse life out or IL tban 1
have made. You could not afford to 90
back u boyhood II 1t were possible. You
might do a great deal worse tbaI you
have done. The past is gonel Look out
for the future!
To all Christians IL is a tme of glad
ness. / am glad the years are going.
You are coming on nearer nome. Let
your countenance light up with the
thought. Nearer nome!
Now. when one can sooner get TO the
centre OF things, is be not TO be congratu-
lAttd2 WnO wants TO be always In the
Freshman classf We study God In this
world by the Biblical photograph OF Him;
but we all know we can IN i've minutes
OF interview with a friend get more accu-
rate idea OF him than we can by studying4
him Il " years through pictures or wor&zE1
The little cnild tnat died at six montlEfsY